Question

I’m getting an error when executing this in SQL Server 2005, But works if I remove the namespaces from the root node :

DECLARE @XmlDocumentHandle int
DECLARE @XmlDocument nvarchar(1000)
SET @XmlDocument = N'<ROOT xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema>
<Customer>
   <ID>VINET</ID>
   <Name>Paul Henriot</Name>
   <Order OrderID="10248" CustomerID="VINET" EmployeeID="5" OrderDate="1996-07-04T00:00:00">
      <OrderDetail ProductID="11" Quantity="12"/>
      <OrderDetail ProductID="42" Quantity="10"/>
   </Order>
</Customer>
<Customer>   
   <ID>LILAS</ID>
   <Name>Carlos Gonzlez</Name>
   <Order OrderID="10283" CustomerID="LILAS" EmployeeID="3" OrderDate="1996-08-16T00:00:00">
      <OrderDetail ProductID="72" Quantity="3"/>
   </Order>
</Customer>
</ROOT>'
-- Create an internal representation of the XML document.
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @XmlDocumentHandle OUTPUT, @XmlDocument
-- Execute a SELECT statement using OPENXML rowset provider.
SELECT    *
FROM      OPENXML (@XmlDocumentHandle, '/ROOT/Customer',2)
           WITH (CustomerID  varchar(10) 'ID',
                 ContactName varchar(20) 'Name')
EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @XmlDocumentHandle

Answer 1

You are just missing a double quote at the end of the first line of xml:

SET @XmlDocument = N'<ROOT xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

(the 2nd-to-last char)

I am able to run your query ok on SQL 2008 after making this change.

John